Cinema and Experience Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno-affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument-developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known and, in the case of Kracauer, less known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on canonic texts, including Benjamin's artwork essay. Her lucid analysis extrapolates from these writings the contours of a theory of cinema and experience that speaks to questions being posed anew as moving image culture evolves in response to digital technology.

ISBN:	9780520265592
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	04 Oct 2011
DEWEY:	791.4309
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	380
Weight:	726g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	28mm

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